Website Security News
As we settle into 2020, it’s a good time to look back at what was learned in the previous year. After all, the past provides valuable lessons for the future. With that thought in mind, we asked our researchers to choose their favorite blog posts…
Our Remediation team lead Ben Martin recently found a fake Google domain that is pretty convincing to the naked eye. The malicious domain was abusing the URL shortener service is.gd:…
Read More about Another Fake Google Domain: fonts.googlesapi.com
This past week, we’ve been monitoring a new wave of website infections mostly impacting WordPress and Magento websites. We found that hackers have been injecting scripts from scripts.trasnaltemyrecords[.]com into multiple…
Read More about Vulnerable Versions of Adminer as a Universal Infection Vector
We recently released an update to our Labs Knowledgebase for new plugins that had been targeted during the month of July 2019. One of these newly targeted plugins was Advanced…
A website owner recently reached out to us about a pop-up advertisement problem on their website which occurred any time someone clicked anywhere on the web page. This irritating pop-up…
Read More about How Domain Expiration Can Potentially Disrupt Other Websites
It’s no news that webmasters commonly make use of external scripts to add more features to their site, but things can turn out for the worse quite easily. What if…
Read More about Lightbox Adware – From Innocent Scripts to Malicious Redirects
In the past couple of years, we’ve been tracking a long-lasting campaign responsible for injecting malicious scripts into WordPress sites. This campaign leverages old vulnerabilities (patched a long time ago)…
Read More about From .tk Redirects to PushKa Browser Notification Scam
If we navigate way back into the recesses of our memory to the era of GeoCities websites and MySpace pages, we might distinctly recollect the popularity of the visitor-counting widget….
Read More about Free SuperCounters Widget Serves Unwanted Redirects to Dating Site
Every year we see an increase in website attacks during the holidays. While business owners see their sales go up due to promotional Black Friday and Cyber Monday campaigns, hackers…
Read More about A Scam-Free Cyber Monday for Online Businesses
Earlier this week, we published a blog post about an ongoing massive malware campaign describing multiple infection vectors that it uses. This same week, we started detecting new modifications of…
When Twitter announced their new design for “Tweet” and “Follow” buttons back in October 2015, marketers across the web developed a mild anxiety—the new design came with a decision to…
Read More about Malicious Redirects from NewShareCounts.com Tweet Counter
